Final Must knows Flashcards
Mycoplasma
resistant to?
treated with?
o No cell wall, sterols
o Smallest free-living bacteria, fried egg shape
o Resistant to penicillin and vancomycin
o Treated with erythromycin! (and tetracyclines or clindamycin)
Rickettsia
o Obligate intracellular G- rods
o HAVE cell wall
o Treat with doxycycline
o grow only in cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells (trigger phagocytosis and then degrade phagosome)
rocky mountain spotted fever
Rickettsia
No eschar, rash after 3 days and then evolves into spotted form
Specific flourescin-labed antibodies to detect
Campylobactor
o G-, spiral, can’t ferment carbs
o Polysaccharide capsule
o Lipoologosaccharide expression
o Guillain-Barr syndrome and reactive arthritis
Campylobactor commonly causes?
LOS causes Gastroenteritis and septicemia
Helicobacter
o G-, spiral, can’t ferment carbs
o Important species is H. pylori
o Cag-PAI indicesIL-8
o Cag 1- IL-1
o Cag pathogenicity islands
Guillain-Barr syndrome
Campylobactor
Helicobacter pylori
- –Associated with gastric ulcers, gastric antrums, gastric B-cell lymphomas and gastric adenocarcinoma
- –caused by cytotoxin-associated gene (cag) proteins
Cell culture
detects presence of virus; limited cytopathologic effects
Hemagglutination
–Presence of virus in secretions; RBCs binding to other RBCs
–Hemadsorption= presence of hemagglitinin protein on cell surface
Hemadsorption
of erythrocytes to cells infected with influenza viruses via hemagglutinin on their surfaces, which binds to erythrocytes of selected animal species
Cytopathic effects
In absence of antibody, the virus infects monolayer of cells causing a cytopathologic effect [CPE] or caused hemagglutination
Hemagglutination inhibition
type and strain of influenzza virus or specificity of antibody
Flu-like symptoms
Fever, chills, headaches, backaches
Cytokine storm
causes what
Systemic symptoms caused by interferon and cytokine responses (cytokine storm)
Immune mediators= antigen presenting cells, T cells, cytokines
Ex: enveloped and other viruse
respiratory transmissions
influenza viruses, rhinoviruses
fecal/oral transmissions
picornaviruses, rotaviruses, noroviruses
sexual contact/blood transmissions
HIV
Human cervical carcinoma
Hepatitis B,C, G, D
Epstain-Barr virus
Zoonotic/arthropod transmissions
- togaviridae
* flaviviridae
what are the viruses that cause children exanthems?
1) Measleas- paramyxovirus measles virus
2) Rubella- Toga virus and Rubella virus
3) Chickenpox- Herpes virus called Varicella Zoster
4) Roseola- Herpes virus called Herpes 6, 7
5) Fifth disease- Parvovirus B19
what virurses are grave concerns when pregnant?
1) Rubella virus- can replicate in placenta
2) Cytomegalovirus- herpes virus; most common viral cause of congenital defects; present in 15% of stillborn babies
Viruses that cause the symptoms that are classic to the common cold
1) rhinovirus
- most common
2) common coronavirus
- 2nd most common
what are serious forms of common coronavirus?
- flu-like
- Some are more serious that cause sudden ACUTE respiratory syndrome:
1) SARS -CoV =china
2) MERS -CoV =middle east
HBV and HBD
o Hepatitis D can only infect people already infected with Hepatitis B
o HDV uses the HBV proteins to target the cells that it will infect